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Ultra-Dense Optical Storage on One Photon
Andreaskem submitted this story about researchers being able to encode an image into a photon and to later retrieve it intact. From the article: "It's analogous to the difference between snapping a picture with a single pixel and doing it with a camera — this is like a 6-megapixel camera... You can have a tremendous amount of information in a pulse of light, but normally if you try to buffer it, you can lose much of that information... We're showing it's possible to pull out an enormous amount of information with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio even with very low light levels."
Does this mean I can now store my photos in a nice easy to carry cartridge or caesium gas? This is a great improvment on these clunky microSD cards I use now.
"RIAA filed a suit against University of Rochester and all of its students for "Helping those damn, dirty pirates infringe on our copyrights!!"
They turned Britney Spears' "Oops I Did It Again" into a giant single number, and imprinted that number on the photon, thus making an illegal photon.
"Thanks to Heisenberg you can only know so much about location and energy at the same time."
Dern that Heisenberg. And you can also thank Einstein for the fact that it takes at least one year to travel one light-year.
Heisenberg might have been here.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Using just ONE photon to produce an image?
Ahh, but what they fail to mention is that the image is of.... tadaa, the photon!
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